Extremely fun, but it's noisy and already seen

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2013)

Guillermo Del Toro is back. And I was thrilled. What's he up to now? A film about giant robots and monsters fighting each other? That's cool! But wait a minute. This doesn't even sounds like Guillermo. Let's check it out. The movie itself, is actually a mixture of anime inspired robots and monsters, Godzilla, "Robot Jocks" and "Independence Day". You put all that in one big oven, and you get this noisy thing. I think that film was mostly inspired by anime films just like Robotech, or Macross Saga, that kind of stuff. And really, action scenes, were high voltage, over the top and I was really impressed. The story is set in 2020, where, in the deepest parts of the Pacific ocean, a breach is opened and from it, a massive, extremely large aliens, called Kaiju merges out to take over a planet ( the part about taking over is very much like in the Independence Day). So, humankind develops a 'Jeager' program. The program consists of a piloting a colossal robots to defeat monsters. It really sounds cool from the first moment, but when you see the film that's everything you ever saw before in Japanese, or US monster film, only this have far more outstanding special effects.
OK, let's start with the basic stuff CGI is excellent, no complaints here. Music score is good but, it's overused in the scenes, where the music is not even required and it's too dramatic at some points. Writing is a cliché the same story over and over, about a skilled pilot who lost his brother and he asked by the general to go back and help him the usual stuff. Good editing, good camera work, very well in fighting scenes. Well, this movie offers only good fight scenes. The props were good, the robot and monster design was badass, the interior design of robots and their robot base was good. The suits were very much like the one from "Dead Space" Isaac Clarke, anyone?
Now, the actors. Charlie Hunnam well, this role was easy, so he didn't do much with his character. He is a typical hero that needs to face with his demons. Don't get me wrong, he is a solid actor but, he didn't do much here. Idris Elba is one of the best actors in the film, and he was good, but sometimes, he was from flat to explosive performance. And his character was pretty predictable. Rinko Kikuchi was new to me here, and she did a pretty good job. We got Clifton Collins Jr. he was OK, and we have Robert Kazinsky (best known as Warlow from True Blood), who plays an a-hole pilot with the cutest bulldog ever. And those two scientist my God, the worst characters in the film, they were just yelling at you and the camera, they were so annoying. And we have Ron Perlman, who obviously got stuck in his Hellboy performance, and his character was an a-hole not far from Hellboy Del Toro maybe wanted Perlman here to look like Hellboy, because he was wearing a red pimp-like suit and well, only the golden shoes were an exception.
So, I do recommend this film, it's pretty enjoyable and it takes away those two and a half hours pretty fast, but don't have to much expectations because it's a déjà vu film and that makes it crappy.